The 2nd Annual Eco Arts Awards Competition is slowly coming to a close, but there is still more time left to enter. Eco Arts Awards is a multidisciplinary creative competition related to ecology. It is being held second time in a row and everyone’s invited to enter. The Competition recently got a deadline extension until 31 January 2013, so entries are still being accepted in four creative categories: Fine Art, Songwriting, Literature and Repurposed Materials in Art & Design. The primary criteria to win in any of these categories is based on strong thematic content around the artists interpretation of ecology.

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The 6th International Animation Festival Fest Anča has recently opened its call for entry! Short animated films and animated music videos can now be submitted from professional filmmakers and students. The Festival’s program includes three international competitions. The Festival has been created to show contemporary, progressive animated films to commemorate the best of the genre’s history. The long-term vision is to approximate well-known international festivals, filling an empty space in this field of art in Slovakia. Fest Anča 2013 will take place in Žilina from 27th to 30th June, 2013.

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The Society of Typographic Aficionados is pleased to announce the fourth annual SOTA Catalyst Award. The award is targeted at young people who have created original work in type design, type history, or other areas related to typography. The award recognizes a person 25 years of age or younger who shows both achievement and future promise in the field of typography. The purpose of the award is to act as a catalyst in the career of a young person who does not yet have broad exposure in the profession.

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